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Why is the moon have less gravity?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Gravity is directly proportional to the mass (weight) of an object. The moon does have less pull of gravity than the Earth, but it has lots more pull of gravity than, say, the 2 moons of Mars.

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